#High Standards

Raising Performance to Match Higher Expectations

At its core, Ralph Marston’s quote warns against a subtle form of surrender: adjusting our standards downward when effort becomes difficult. Instead of treating disappointment as a signal to expect less, he urges us to s...

Not Failure, but Low Aim, Is Crime — C.S. Lewis

Lewis underscores the virtue of striving ambitiously rather than settling for easy or comfortable goals. This echoes the spirit of Michelangelo, who declared, “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our ai...